Posted on 10/31/2002 7:59:51 PM PST by fatguy
REYKJAVIK, Iceland--The mother of pop singer Bjork has ended her hunger strike against a plan to develop the Icelandic highlands.
Hildur Runa Hauks-dottir said Tuesday that she began eating again on Sunday evening. She began her fast Oct. 7 to try to persuade Pittsburgh-based Alcoa to pull out of the plan to build an aluminum smelter and hydroelectric plant in the wilderness area.
Environmentalists say the $3 billion project will ruin the area above Vatnajokull glacier.
Alcoa spokesman Wade Hughes has said the firm has a good track record on conservation.
Hauksdottir, 56, said she quit because she was satisfied that her message was having a global impact. ''Americans, Europeans, people in the Far East have all contacted me asking how they can help, how they can stop this,'' she said.
Hauksdottir lost more than 14 pounds during her protest, surviving on Icelandic herbal tea and homeopathic tonics.
In 3 1/2 weeks, I lose more than 14 pounds by just cutting out the sweets and walking every day.
I take it that the Chicago Sun-Times see's the Howell Raines stewardship as its opportunity to assume the mantle of "The
Paper of Record" by attempting to give would-be extortionists legitimacy.
I'm surprised that the DNC hasn't considered "Bjork's Mom" to run as the Democrat replacement for the Hawaiian Corpsicle
that they finally pronounced.
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